That is one hell of a Duchovnery.

I don't know of tutorials in particular, but the guy who's stuff you wanna follow is Proton. (William Vaughan.) He was my teacher at DAVE, and he's well known for his comprehensive, great tutorials for LW.

Here's the secret: lyrics don't matter that much, and the better the song is musically, the less they matter. Typically, the only words in the song that even almost matter are the first line (establishes the tone, the perspective, the style) and the chorus (has to exemplify the point you're making). If every single word of "I Kissed A Girl" was different except for the chorus, it'd be the same fucking song to anybody but Katy Perry. She's the only one who really cared at the time, and might not care anymore. (Supposing, you know, that she wrote that song.)

I'm not saying they're not something you should slave over or anything, I spend ages on my lyrics. But about a week after the song is done, those lyrics which NEVER SEEM RIGHT when the song is in progress, the ones that still suck the most at the end of the day, become something else.

...they become the lyrics.

They're just the words. Do your best on them, but at the end of the day, the song is gonna be what it's gonna be, and people are gonna sing whatever you write.

EDIT: I'll add to this. It might seem like heresy, incorrectitude, sacrilege, or "this guy is a bad songwriter" that I say that, so let me explain why I do. Ultimately, I'm sold on melody and chords. The words are the drink with the meal. Naturally if you're making something incredibly sweet and rich to eat - like a box of Nerds with chocolate on top - you're just gonna want a glass of water with that meal. See "I Kissed A Girl," and the lyrics that aren't so important. If you're writing something a bit more... valid, I guess, like an Elliot Smith song, that's gotta be a nice round meal. Nice chicken, good glaze, maybe some noodles, and a glass of wine for lyrics. They accent everything, but at the end of the day, the chicken and noodles wouldn't be worse if you were drinking water. "Say Yes" would be exactly as listenable if the words were different. "Imagine." "Hallelujah." The really good songs are good enough that you can just hum the tune and ignore the words.

The song is the song. The words are whatever you want them to be, do your best, but don't stress on it. That's my outlook. You're not gonna have ANYTHING if the music is shit, that's where I think you should focus. Great lyrics are great, but they're an afterthought sometimes, and that's okay. Know what the song is about, know what you want to say, and say it. Done.

EDIT: One last idea, this is a trick I've used before. If you're really stuck, start over, and do this. Make the ENTIRE idea you're conveying an analogy, and sing the analogy without ever referring to what you're really talking about. Make it abstract.

Between you and lito tonight, I swear to god, if you guys just wrote more reviews, we'd be a very large goddamned site.

Great writing, fun to read, and enlightening. I'm interested to check it out now, too.

YOU SHOULDN'T LIKE TOO MANY THINGS, ZARBAN, YOUR BRAIN WILL FALL OUT

Late comment, but I didn't know I was looking at the Wachowskis in that clip until nearly the end of it. Lana's passing nicely.

I was wondering when someone was gonna ask. Only took until Wednesday. 

My computer is in the shop this week, and I've been a whiny bitch about wanting to mix the episode on some other computer.

You should go over to the "Gone" thread in the creations board and see what we did with that. There's a bunch of musical types around these parts.

Gonna be doing something similar in the future. (Right now the "follow up" to the Gone video is in the works, but we'll probably be doing one after that.)